1 Peter 3:13-22 - Suffer For Doing What Is Good
13 And who is he who will harm you, if ye become imitators of the good? 14 But even if ye should suffer because of righteousness, ye are blessed. But do not fear their terror nor be shaken, 15 but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. And always be ready for a defense to every man who asks you a word about the hope in you, with mildness and fear. 16 Having a good conscience, so that, in what they speak against you as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed, those who revile your good behavior in Christ. 17 For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God desires, than for doing evil.
18 Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,
19 in which also, having gone, he preached to the spirits in prison 20 who were disobedient formerly, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah who prepared an ark in which a few, that is, eight souls were saved through water. 21 Which counterpart--immersion--now also saves us, not the putting away of filth of flesh, but an appeal of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, agents, and positions of authority, and powers having been subordinated to him.